By the time Riley's embarrassment has calmed, Forrest and Graham had watched the taped two more times. Cat had gone upstairs in search of the "others". Riley slowly realized, "Wait, what others. Cat how did you get this one, What the hell is going on!" Riley took the stairs two at a time. Forrest and Graham just looked at each other, shrugged and rewound the tape for another go.
Riley found his old friend in a room at the end of the hall, searching in boxes and crates for her old memories. Cat glanced up "Hi, they should be in this box, here are some albums too" pointed to the photo albums she had just removed. Riley barely glanced at those, he was more concerned with the video tape and what whatever others were hidden in the crates. "Cat, how did you get that tape, those tapes, Where did they come from?"
Cat stopped looking and realized that she would have to explain it all to Riley. She cleared a space on the small sofa that was cluttered with papers, so that Riley could sit, she continued to kneel by the boxes in front of him. "You remember how I use to spent every summer at the farm, right?"
Riley looked at Cat like she was retarded, how could he forget, they were best friends. He lived for those summers. "Of course I remember, those were the best summers of my life!"
"Well then you remember that you had chores right after supper, and you would go out to the barn." Cat waited for Riley to nod, he did and she continued, "Well, I use to follow you, I would go up the back way and hide in the hayloft..." Cat was going to continue to tell him everything but he just exploded.
"And videotaped me!! Well that's just great!!" Riley was steaming, pissed even. "Why don't you just have a viewing for the whole frat house then everyone can get a good laugh." His complaining continued but Cat didn't hear all of it as Riley left the room and raced down the stairs.
Cat scrambled to her feet and jumped over the boxes in an attempt to catch up with him. As she entered the living room, Riley was already gone, waiting impatiently on the walkway for Forrest and Graham. The guys gathered their coats and muttered their good-byes and left to catch up with Riley. Cat stared at the three as they left hoping that Riley would reconsider and come back. He didn't.
She went back upstairs to repack the boxes, not bothering to look for the lost tapes. As she was putting stuff back she stumbles on some old tapes, putting one in she listens as she flips through an old photo album. Memories of those summers and old emotions flood her mind as she listens to REO Speedwagon's "I Can't Fight This Feeling"
It was just like old times, her hopelessly in love with him, and he didn't even notice!
TBC
